The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be partnering with Boston, MA-based interactive agency iFactory to design and develop a prototype front end portal, the companies announced today.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Secretariat is delighted to release a request for proposals (RFP) for the design and development of a prototype front end portal for the DPLA.
The Technical Development team has produced a high-level document outlining the integrated development plan for the DPLA platform and front-end.
Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey thanks the Interim Technical Development team for their incredible work and outlines plans moving forward in this blog post.
A Hackathon held both in Cambridge, MA and virtually encourages developers to explore the functionality of the prototype DPLA platform.
Geneva Henry has put out an open call for comments and feedback on a recently published draft report for CLIR-DLF discussing infrastructure considerations for large-scale digital libraries.
The interim technical development team released its first build yesterday.
Over the past week, the technical development team has met with a number of digital library experts.
An initial group of developers will develop a draft technical specification and begin work on the initial elements of the DPLA platform between now and April 2012.
